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Louvre Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
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CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Friday marks five years since Louvre[2] Abu Dhabi welcomed the first members of the public" (published 11 Nov 2022).Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.0.62Len Lye Centre Opens as New Zealand's First Single-Artist Museum
42 Queen Street, New Plymouth, New Zealand
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE11.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Len Lye Centre was opened on 25 July 2015. This is the first gallery in New Zealand to be dedicated to a single artist."The Len Lye Centre, clad in curved stainless-steel columns, opened in New Plymouth as New Zealand's first museum dedicated to a single artist.$8.3M0.61Colosseum's Tod's-Funded Facade Restoration Unveiled After Three Years
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE10.2 years agoHappened as dated: WWD[2] reports the event of 1 July 2016 at which Diego Della Valle and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi marked the completion of the first part of the restoration, begun in September 2013. The whole project was then expected to run to 2020-2022.A three-year, Tod's-funded restoration of the Colosseum's facade - the first phase of a longer project - wrapped up with a ceremony attended by Italy's prime minister, revealing the monument's stone cleaned of two millennia of grime.0.60Notre-Dame de Paris Reopens After 2019 Fire
Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, France
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The reopening ceremony began just after 19:00 CET with the ringing of the cathedral bells for the first time since 2019".Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened to worshippers and visitors on December 7, 2024, five and a half years after a fire gutted its roof and spire.0.60Canlis Opens Above Lake Union
CanlisCanlis, 2576, Aurora Avenue North, Fremont, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98109, United StatesESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE75.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1950 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.[1]Peter Canlis opened his restaurant in 1950 on the slope above Lake Union, in a post-and-beam pavilion of glass and stone that became a landmark of north-west modernism, and it has stayed in the family. Its kimono-clad service and copper-fired charcoal grill were both unusual for an American dining room of the period.0.60Notre-Dame de Paris Restoration Complete
Paris, France
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…opened to worshippers in December 2024. Estimated date.…"Work continues on the exterior, flying buttresses and sacristy after the cathedral reopened to worshippers in December 2024. Estimated date.$739M0.60Odette Opens Inside the National Gallery Singapore
ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCE10.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "Founded in 2015 by chef Julien Royer" - with no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.0.59The Fox: NGV Contemporary Targets a 2028 Opening in Melbourne
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ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the source[1]: NGV Contemporary "is slated to open in 2028."The National Gallery of Victoria's new contemporary art wing, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is under construction in Melbourne's Southbank arts precinct with a targeted 2028 opening, part of a rivalry with Hobart's MONA.0.59The Washington Monument Opens to the Public
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE138.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "opened to the public in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, Oct. 9, 1888".After decades of stalled funding and a visible change in stone partway up its shaft, the Washington Monument finally opened its doors to visitors in 1888.0.59Four Rebuilt Red Line Stations Open on Chicago's North Side
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe CTA's announcement says "four fully reconstructed Red Line stations in Edgewater and Uptown will open on Sunday, July 20, 2025".[1]The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.0.58The London Museum Opens in Smithfield's General Market
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEin 66 daysThe museum's own site announces "Opening 28 Nov 2026" in its header and beside its Smithfield address, so the day is the institution's own.[1]London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.0.58Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
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CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.0.57
